Word: dismalness
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...Falklands. Conditions guarantee an ugly, unpleasant engagement. The Falklands, cold, damp, desolate clumps of rock set in a storm-tossed ocean, are a dismal place for military operations. By last weekend the Argentine forces, composed in part of raw recruits conscripted only months be fore, were dug in on the mossy, treeless, windy wasteland. They were waiting for British troops, who, though surely more experienced and better trained, had al ready endured what must have seemed like an eternity of confinement and sea sickness on the violent South Atlantic. It appeared, as it has been from the first, a confrontation...
This is not to say that Kleinfelder should not have been released. The final decision Reardon made was a proper one. Over the past two seasons, Kleinfelder has compiled a meager 12-39 record and her most recent campaign saw the squad's mark plummet to a dismal 4-21. (But, keep in mind, at Harvard it takes more than just a losing record to dismiss a coach...
...friends from Cincinatti stiffly rose from their chairs. The stress of going from the euphoric '70s back to 1982, when the Reds were struggling at the bottom of the NL West with a dismal 3-10 mark, was simply too much. They muttered something about a Music I paper that was due in three weeks and headed back to their room to talk about hiking in the wilds surrounding Toledo...
...high point of an otherwise dismal 1-3 weekend was the comeback in the second Navy game...
...fellow citizens had queued up to vote in El Salvador's constituent assembly elections. In cities and towns across the embattled country, more than 1.5 million men and women braved guerrilla threats - and in some cases dodged bullets - to cast their ballots. Defying widespread predictions of a dismal turnout, at least 80% of the electorate - twice the normal figure - took part in the most important elections in the country's history. Said President Ronald Reagan in his prime time press conference: "Now they really showed that there is a real desire for democracy there, and I am therefore...